The staccato burst of gunfire at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus [Images] in Mumbai at 9.21 pm on Wednesday night hardly gave an inkling of the shape of things to come up in the next two to three hours.

Giving a blow-by-blow account of the terror strikes, Special Secretary (Internal Security) in the Home Ministry, M L Kumawat today said the next firing occurred at Leopold Cafe [Images] at 9:48 pm, followed by a similar incident at Hotel Oberoi at 9:57 hrs.

The terrorists then struck Hotel Taj at 10:03 pm, Colaba at 10:25 pm, the Times of India building at 10:50 pm, the Bombay Municipal Corporation at 10:51 pm and Memosis Building at 10:54 pm, he said.